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LinkPizza posted...
And it's not free, as the original poster had to buy it from somewhere.

It's far more common that the video creator *is* the person who made the song.

LinkPizza posted...
And youtube is on the internet, which cost money...

Already went over this above. If you're paying to access the internet (reminder: free wifi exists), that still doesn't make something you get online "not free" any more than a free sample you get in a store isn't "free" because you had to buy gas for your car to get there. If you're going into that (frankly ridiculous) extreme, nothing is free.

Please stop being pedantic and dodging the point. You're just deliberately refusing to acknowledge that the internet is loaded with free shit that wasn't around 30 years ago.

LinkPizza posted...
-Pictures: They cannot get you pictures on whatever subject you want. Like pictures of a specific person might not be available. Or pictures of something that doesn't exist might not be available. Also, you could be stealing. Many people watermark their work so that people can't use it without permission. Some are also supposed to be available only on certain sites with permission, but people will buy them and put them up for free for other people to use, even when they aren't actually supposed to. Which is a form of theft.

None of which disproves my point, which is that there are a tonne of free pictures on the internet that are just a Google search away.

All you've said here is, "Not every picture online is free", which is not even close to what I was saying. Are there free, completely legal pictures online? Yes? Lots of them? Then my statement is true. You can whine about how some people are stealing pictures and how your Aunt Miriam's picture isn't on Google, but that's not a response to anything I said. I never said everything online was free or even every picture; just that there's a tonne of free pictures out there and that's unarguably true.

LinkPizza posted...
And again, the internet isn't free...

I'm curious at this point, since you keep making this logical error - does the phrase, "There's free stuff on the internet" not imply that you already have access to the internet? Like... that does make sense to you, right? You understand the linguistic convention at play there?

If I say, "They're doing a free giveaway on the local radio station", you can't reasonably argue, "No they're not! It's not free! You had to buy the radio, didn't you?!".

I mean, I guess you could argue that, but literally no one would take you seriously if you did.

LinkPizza posted...
It needs to be free to fit your narrative, and it's not since the materials cost something.

Except... they don't. I can download a picture right now for free. Do you want me to give you instructions on how to do it?

LinkPizza posted...
And while not everyone needs hard copies of their photos, many like to have them.

Which is not a counterpoint to the statement, "There are free photos on the internet."

LinkPizza posted...
-Videos: No. They are paid for by the ads, so they aren't free.

Not all videos have ads. And even if they do, you're still not paying any money for them. They are free. You, the consumer, need pay not a thing for them. That is the definition of "free".

If you are concerned about ads, I can send you a video right now, for free. It doesn't have any ads, I promise, and it won't cost either of us any money for me to send it to you.


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